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About LinkBacksI'm looking for recommendations for a droid that I can use without service - obviously I will be buying used.
I am planning on using it for its wifi and gps mainly. I am an outdoor and fitness enthusiast so the apps I'd use would be things for tracking my bike rides, using it as a heart rate monitor, etc - plus general web surfing via wifi.
Assuming all this is possible without activating it with a carrier - which droid would be best suited for this? Cost is a factor, so I am not looking for one of the newer phones, since I would like to keep my cost to 100 or less.
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Best Droid to use without any cell service
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02-05-2012 06:44 AMBest Droid to use without any cell service
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02-05-2012 06:54 AMIf you are looking to keep it less then $100 then I would look at getting a Droid 1. Great, durable device and very inexpensive by now.
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02-05-2012 06:58 AMIs there any limitations to going that old? From a software upgradeability perspective possibly?
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02-05-2012 07:01 AMIf you root it you can upgrade it to Gingerbread (2.3) and I believe they are working on ICS (4.0) for it but it has a way to come yet. And I am not sure about how Maps would work on it honestly, have not tried it out prior to have knowledge on it.
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02-05-2012 07:02 AMthanks - just did a quick ebay search on droid 1 - looks like they are going for $50ish.
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02-05-2012 07:17 AMYeah they are quite inexpensive. Anything else I feel would be over the $100 mark but it would not hurt to look around at maybe the Droid X and Droid 2 as well, not sure what they sell for though.
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02-05-2012 07:19 AMIs say the Droid, Droid X, or Droid incredible 2. If you're not worried about it being specifically with Verizon, other carriers have some pretty good Android phones as well.
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02-05-2012 07:47 AMI agree on the Droid and Droid X but I feel like the Inc 2 is probably a bit out of the $100 price tag but I could be wrong.
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02-05-2012 07:59 AMi looked at the incredible but not the 2...I had a droid x at one point - should have kept it. Craigslist might be the place to buy from - much cheaper than what ebay is going for.
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02-05-2012 08:02 AMI do want to stay with VZW - I case I do activate it at some point...I'm already on VZW.
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